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Jesuitic
JE-zoo-uht-ik
adjective
related to the Catholic Jesuit order; a person characterized by their cunning
1884Joris-Karl HuysmansAgainst The Grain'There is no doubt about it,' Des Esseintes mused, as he reasoned the matter and followed the progress of this introduction of the Jesuitic spirit into Fontenay.1903W. E. B. Du BoisThe Souls of Black FolkOn the other hand, another type of mind, shrewder and keener and more tortuous too, sees in the very strength of the anti-Negro movement its patent weaknesses, and with Jesuitic casuistry is deterred by no ethical considerations in the endeavor to turn this weakness to the black man's strength.1962Philip K. DickThe Man in the High CastleIdeological orientation suggesting medieval Jesuitic viewpoint exacerbated by post-Romantic Germanic nihilism.

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similar in form; identical in form
1968John NormanPriest Kings of Gor...it would be a physical model of that same history, an isomorphic analogue of her past as she had experienced it.1981Philip K. DickThe Divine Invasion'This apparently is a furtive life form. It's not isomorphic with us. It doesn't think the way we do.'1983Christopher StasheffThe Warlock WanderingBut there's a gadget in the back of the ship called an 'isomorpher,' and when the pilot turns it on, it makes us isomorphic with H-space.1988Umberto EcoFoucault's Pendulum...what is above is isomorphic to what is below.

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